An incorrigible Cognitive Dissident

How uninformed uniformity is killing the Leftlib appeal

What happens when the politically correct becomes electorally unsustainable? The answer, very often, is the triumph of mindless faux-democracy. The liberal West is dragging us there, and they show no sign at all of being able to change.

One of the many tactics used by the Leftlib Soros axis of manipulation – designed to put us all in the undereducated dumbass bin – is their feigned admiration for ‘experts’. There are at least three dimensions of muddled hypocrisy in that contention: for example, if they like science, expertise and maths so much, why can they never apply it to their own inadequacies? They’re clueless on commercial economics, seem to think 48% is a winning margin, that 180,000 activists can overtake a Tory poll lead currently at 18.5%, that inefficient wind power can provide for all our rapidly growing energy needs, and harp on endlessly about the “waste of money” that were the Gemini and Apollo Space programmes…without grasping that they led to almost everything that people under forty now seem to depend upon.

This last point is a recurring reality that bugs me more than most. Yesterday morning CET on CNBC Squawkbox, there was a NASA “expert” talking about the need to revitalise Space exploration with a panel of financial “experts”. I support his position entirely for all kinds of reasons, but both he and the panel talked complete tosh about every subject area into which they blundered during the half-hour slot. These included Einsteinian physics, financial payback, the existence of extra-terrestrial life, travel beyond our solar system, the benefits of government scientific investment, and e = mc².

Think about that: a former NASA scientist does not understand the illusion of Time and Space. Or alternatively, he has a position (and a book) to sell, so he chooses to ignore the findings of the least disproved scientific brain in human history. But he calls himself an expert, so that’s OK. I think he may have designed my tractor mower.

One of the prime reasons why the UK Labour Party has failed to build convincing cases against the almost universally bad science of the current Conservative administration is largely explained by its naive trust in, and acceptance of, “experts” with views that mirror their own….and even some who don’t.

I have yet to meet, for example, any Labour MP who thinks there is any viable alternative to globalism. I’ve yet to convince anyone on the UK Left that the EU is many things, but democratic is not one of them. No LibDem or Labour mind of which I’m aware questions our dangerously ridiculous dependence on the bourse system for raising capital funds. I do not know of any tendency in the Democratic Party that doubts the validity of US payroll data, even though they are a mad hatter’s tea party from start to finish.

The Left doesn’t ‘get’ market research, and its vulnerability to underclaim support for the anti-Establishment candidate. It just carries on accepting every word as if it might be gospel. It listens intently as some Belgian sprout “explains” why the UK makes money on its trade with the EU. It accepts the idea that Russia can hack into the US voting system, even though that system is almost entirely not digital. It accepts without a scintilla of critical analysis the argument that Greece owes “creditors” €250billion , although both the owed’s identity and the amount are both wildly wrong. It accepts with no little glee the preposterous idea that the world has recovered from 2008, and the oil price is sustainable above €50pcb.

I have never met any Labour MP or activist or even supporter who queries the idea that global economic growth is a ‘must have’.

It’s bad enough that in the 21st century we ignore (or more often, have never heard of) Plato’s dictum that the fast lane to dictatorship is an ill-informed and distracted electorate. But the crisis of resistance we face now in the West is that of Oppositions crippled by an acceptance mentality when it comes to information, and a distraction away from the larger-scale issues in favour of minority ‘nice to have’ causes.

Worse still, the bottom end of the original Labour bedrock is not just ill-informed: it is apathetic to a degree that makes it uninformed. The higher end has drifted away to the Right, tired of the uniform response of Labour’s intellectuals. This is not a good look, and it will inevitably lead to crushing defeat, if and when Ms Mayormaynot decides the time has come to call a Brexit Election.

There is no reason to ignore experts, but there is every reason to question them. There is no reason to become policy slaves to the views of ordinary electors, but there is every reason to listen to their concerns.

In the longer term, Labour’s own educational preference for Groupthink, targets, thinly veiled propaganda, zero selection and “correctness” in general doesn’t just need a rethink: it needs to do a screeching wheely into reverse once the current insanity is over. Because if that now discredited model isn’t rejected, the Party will simply return to Blairism….and disappear into obscurity.

Property is over-valued, stock markets are at record levels, but neither reflect the falling demand caused in large part by an economic model based on the two antithetical principles of reduced mass disposable income and increased consumption levels. There is going to be a Crash, and Labour simply isn’t on it.

Do we have a license?
Do we have a license to gob off over the public internet like a mouthpiece with agenda. Answer NO.
Regulation is coming. Too many proles spouting nonsense on the airwaves which pollutes and infects everyones brains.

Political correctness and identity politics are the means by which global capitalism owns the opposition. Political correctness stunts the development of potentially intelligent people’s ability to reason. Identity politics means that the opposition to global capitalism argues about everything else but global capitalism. The most obvious example is the Democratic Party in the US, controlled by Wall Street and warmongers and obsessed with race and gender politics, as if the citizens being killed in Syria care whether the US Commander-in Chief is black or white or a man or a woman.

Where you are wrong is in saying: ‘There is going to be a Crash, and Labour simply isn’t on it.’ Corbyn and the Hard Left of his generation do believe there is going to be a crash. They have believed it for decades. What they also believe is that the electorate will automatically turn to the Labour Party when the crash does come. That is why their strategy is to try to keep control of Labour even at the cost of losing the next election by a record margin.

Mark.
When you drill down to it, the problem here is people. Too many of them. I suspect I’m not the only one thinking that. Think how further the natural resources would go, if there were say, only 500m people on the planet? In fact just how much nicer everything would be with only 500m people on the planet.
You are correct in your statement: ‘The Future is Dying.’

@kfc: As someone here once said, “a robot economy is no economy”. If millions of workers world-wide are to be impoverished, who will buy all the goods and services that the robots produce?

A citizens income (social credit) has been mooted recently but under our present financial dispensation will not work as it will all be absorbed by the rent seekers (see what has happened to student loans and student housing costs). LVT plus rent controls would be required but no political party has any understanding of the role of either.

@bill40. As I understand it the US fracking industry is now so efficient it can make a return at $40 per barrel such that the recent Opec agreement to stabilize the price at about $50 has been defeated. Expect further falls in the crude price and as there is nearly always an overshoot, a possible collapse this summer. There has been a huge find in the Texas Permian Basin and the world is awash with gas reserves. Renewables have a mountain to climb.

The problem with renewables is not that they don’t produce power, it’s that no renewable system can cope with the typical daily surges in power requirements.
And unless someone can come up with a way of creating a howling gale just as constipation street ends it can’t work can it?

@Jonathan Baker…many thanks
here’s the problem…Scotland buys in its annual £13B of debt due…where do they get the money? (As they will be using Sterling and will not be able to print it.)
I think they then issue £13B of new bonds which I think goes to auction, meaning they might not sell it all at par value. Somebody must underwrite this issue.
Greece 10yr bond currents carries 8.75% interest rate. So Scotland sells its £13B but it now carries annual £1B interest paymentt…year 2 same again and so on, so that by the time they rollover their debt they have £13B interest payments every year plus still £165B debt.

Moody’s came out last week and declared that a seperate Scottish Pound would be rated as a currency carrying of junk status.

Can you honestly see anybody underwriting this issuance of debt every year?
Can you see anybody buying Scottish junk bonds for their pension funds?
Can you see this joke going on for 13 years?

Anyway many thanks and if you have any advice it would be most welcome.

We currently have a finance minister who knows nothing about finance.
When asked about the Laffer curve, I grant you I don’t really believe in it myself, but his answer was that he did not know what it was as the economists had not told him about it or what it stood for…I kid you not.
He’s in charge of a £38B budget.

If there is one piece of legislation i would like to see introduced, it is this: Every windturbine should be fitted with a small array of LED lights as follows. Ist yellow = turbine generating 10% of its design capacity. 2nd Yellow 50% of design capacity. 3rd yellow 100% of design capacity (retro fitted so there’s no cheating on what the design capacity was at the date of installation. Oh and I understand that sometimes wind turbines draw energy from the grid so if / when this happens i think a blue LED should light up in this way every single member of the public will get an instant visual of what these turbines are achieving…..

@bill40,
A thought, having lived off grid for 6 years here’s the reality..
Sunday morning, overcast and windless (most of the winter months in northern Europe)
Then 12 million homes switch the oven on for the roast, 40 million kw, FROM WHERE?
Typically wind turbines produce nowt in less than 15mph winds…

@ Bertie Bear .. the mechanics of debt refinancing is realtively simple . Most investors have limits per Name ( Gilts / Bunds or company debt for example) . Generally speaking when a bond matures it frees up space in investor limits and typically they re-invest in like-to-like so there is almost always an automatic bid for new debt as old debt expires .

I suspect politicians across the World are terrified that Global economic growth will stall or God forbid go into reverse. (Multiple Gods are available at the checkout). See Venezula or Greece for bench top experiments.

I suspect politicians across the World are terrified that Global economic growth will stall or God forbid go into reverse. (Multiple Gods are available at the checkout). See Venezula or Greece for bench top experiments.

Working with the hypothesis that there are just six degrees of separation, could someone reading this thread please make the next connection and advance the earnest wish that “Blair should disappear into obscurity.” (and take the s*dding ism with him)…..

I suspect politicians across the World are terrified that Global economic growth will stall or God forbid go into reverse. (Multiple Gods are avialable at the checkout). See Venezula or Greece for bench top experiments.

Working with the hypothesis that there are just six degrees of separation, could someone reading this thread please make the next connection and advance the earnest wish that “Blair should disappear into obscurity.” (and take the sodding ism with him)…..

If one relies on expert opinion for knowledge, one finds neither. When folks absorb worldview from their chosen example of punditocracy (handsome or becoming) are they practicing religion? If someone told you that colors go away in the dark, would you argue?

The “ill-informed and distracted electorate” mentioned is, if not intentional, certainly providential for TPTB, though a sizeable number are waking up. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to include the Left. One of its most perverse positions is that of embracing Islam and its followers, in total denial of islamic teaching on homosexuality (let alone LGBTQ2), subjugation of women, FGM, apostasy, and religious conquest and dominance. The Left’s opposition to Christianity as antithetical to progressivism ignores the fact that Islam is much more so. Though they may draw a hard distinction between Islamic extremists and other Muslims, yet all practice a religion that runs totally counter to progressivism.

The Left’s concern for equality, social justice, and personal freedom blinds them to the reality staring them in the face and which will lead to their own, not to mention the rest of the civilised world’s total eclipse, if allowed and encouraged.

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About as accurate a summation of the problem as one will find anywhere. Sadly, George Soros spotted the post-cognitive disorder 30 years ago, and has been exploiting it ever since. JW

I was listening to an article on technology and the coming of the self-driving automobile, the so called ‘expert’ chuckled and snorted a few times before he said he, “Couldn’t see self-driving cars on the road for 20 or 30 yrs yet”. WhoTF is he trying to kid, I thought? And then I thought, he’s not kidding anyone, he’s just not letting on just how close this technology really is.

I was listening to an article on technology and the coming of the self-driving automobile, the so called ‘expert’ chuckled and snorted a few times before he said he, “Couldn’t see self-driving cars on the road for 20 or 30 yrs yet”. WhoTF is he trying to kid, I thought? And then I thought, he’s not kidding anyone, he’s just not letting on just how close this technology really is.

I heard one or another MP the other day voicing concern over technology versus employment, slowly the penny is dropping.

For most part this debate is of no significance, the real issue is the coming of robotisation and automation which will decimate the workforce, already software is in use that can reduce 30,000 hrs of legal work into a few seconds. Now we see this: Robocops to join Dubai police force by May
with an estimated 25% of the police workforce being robots by 2030.
What is to become of the millions and millions of unemployed folk?

IMHO the current imperative is not to understand the precise mechanism by which the doomsday machine functions but to get as far away from its influence and blast zone as humanly possible.

The SNP debacle is an example of how political thinking has basically ceased. Anyone with half a brain can see that their ideas are not just hare-brained but completely suicidal from a national perspective and are based in the politics of spite and short term expediency.

As the guy who told you Sturgeon would never hold indyref2…guess what.

I now hear that Sturgeon is going for it and the currency is to be Sterling and that a new referendum should be held in spring 2019

This means Scotland will not be able to print money, giving her a deficit of £15Billion to start with…the Barnett formula is kaput..

Regarding Scotland’s share of UK debt. Since the start of the Scottish Parliament Scotland has an accumulated deficit, since 1999 until 2014, of £130Billion. When you add current annual deficits of £15B until 2019, then Scotland would have a debt burden of £205Billion, minus Scotland’s share of assets on BofE Balance Sheet, currently £435, Scotland’s share would then be circa £40B, giving a net debt of £165Billion. The current rollover period, ie the UK re-buys it’s due debt approx every 13years. They would have to buy back circa £13B of government bonds everty year.

The net result is that Scotalnd would have an annual deficit on its current budget of £38Billilon a deficit in the order of£28Billion(£15B plus £13B).

This means all the money an independent Scotland would have to spent is approx £10Billion, a cut of £28Billion.

Of course they could repudiate the debt, but as this debt is almost certainly held by Scottish pension Funds, (they could also cut Welfare and OAP pensions) This would mean that they would have to abolish of all public sector pensions. ie abolish not make bankrupt as there would be no pension lifeboat Therefor No NHS pensions, No police pensions, No local Authority pensions plus No Scottish Universities, no schools etc etc the only bright spot would be that there would be no pensions for MSPs.

And you think Labour Party is incompetent…Try the Socialist First Minister Nicola Sturgeon whose stated aim is for a multi-cultural Scotland…not bad for a supposedly nationalist leader.

Anyway there is one piece of the jigsaw which I’m missing and that is the mechanics of the rollover of Scotland’s £160Billion plus national debt.
I understand that governments normally buy back their outstanding debt approx 6 months before it is due but I’m not to sure of the mechanics of issueing new debt.

Any help from your readers would be appreciated.

After 50 years of being a member of the SNP I just can’t fathom a leadership so callous as to deliberately destroy ordinary people.

So how does a government, with no money, buy back its old debt and issue
new debt?

They can’t join the Euro because annual deficit is actually about 12% of GDP and not the requiredf 3%.

They can’t even have their own currency because currently Norway’s Kroner (with backing of $900 Billion Sovereign Wealth) has fallen in value by 46% since 2013.
How far could a Scottish curreny fall. Let’s say there is a clue in that the appropriate moniker on Scottsh banknotes would be either Alex Salmond or Mickey Mouse ( in reality no difference)

Property is over-valued, stock markets are at record levels, but neither reflect the falling demand caused in large part by an economic model based on the two antithetical principles of reduced mass disposable income and increased consumption levels.
Drop that sentence into a converation somewhere and you can hear a pin drop in a nanosecond.
Until you can get folk to understand the basic principles here, you’re wasting your time and breath.

Apart from your frankly odd diatribe about wind power this is spot on but please get over renewables, they are the future. That aside the price of oil still decides everything, especially inflation.
We have come to a pretty pass here. The oil industry needs $50 plus price to be sustainable but it seems the world can’t sustain that figure. Something will have to give.
As to politics I still have no idea why being anti EU is not the default option for the left, it always used to be and with Corbyn still is. He just seems to like all that is worst about the EU.
There is a popular football chant that I think can be applied to most governments and central banks today.

Ever increasing global economic growth is essential to the ideology of those wanting to see an ever larger and more powerful state and the prospects of employment so (not) afforded for the chosen, against a backdrop of exporting real productive jobs. Spot the deliberate mistake.